Letters to the editor March 3

Art of the deal?

Neither my father or brother, both Purple Heart recipients, nor my husband, Vietnam veteran and National Guard retiree, enlisted to defend a country whose president, vice president, secretary of defense and tacitly compliant Republican majority aligned themselves with Russia, North Korea and Belarus in refusing to condemn Vladimir Putin as the murderous dictator responsible for the death and destruction wreaked by his lawless invasion of Ukraine. 

None of them would have signed up to defend the extortion of a country fighting for its life or abandonment of our allies who have helped keep the peace since World War II. By their actions they have made a mockery of every single drop of blood shed by those who defended democracy. They have given aid and comfort to the enemies of the state.